Ancient Epistemologies
Ancient Epistemologies
Buch
- Herausgeber: Jan Dietrich, Annette Schellenberg-Lagler, Thomas Wagner
Derzeit nicht erhältlich.
Lassen Sie sich über unseren eCourier benachrichtigen, falls das Produkt bestellt werden kann.
Lassen Sie sich über unseren eCourier benachrichtigen, falls das Produkt bestellt werden kann.
- Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. K, 09/2024
- Einband: Fester Einband
- ISBN-13: 9783161638664
- Erscheinungstermin: 30.9.2024
Ähnliche Artikel
Klappentext
Reflection on knowledge is often assumed to have emerged with Greek philosophy. Earlier and contemporary modes of thinking in the ancient Near East, including ancient Israel, are assumed to be archaic and often left out of the picture. Against this view, the contributors of this volume aim to reconstruct the ancient epistemologies, the "paradigms", "discourses", and "episteme", that developed in the ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean region and formed the conditions for developing more distinct forms of cultural and scientific knowledge. In doing this, they include the search for second order thinking as part of ancient epistemologies: the capability to think about thinking, to adopt a theoretical attitude that involves the ability to reflect and self-reflect, to criticize and transcend the given, and to anticipate new realms by thinking outside the box. The ancient Near Eastern cultures were not characterized by a 'lukewarm mind' but they were capable, in their own cultural-specific ways, of unfolding epistemologies that included forms of second order thinking that may well be termed 'early philosophy'.Biografie (Thomas Wagner (geb. 1967))
Thomas Wagner, 1955 in Mannheim. Studium der Germanistik und Philosophie in Heidelberg und Brighton, Sussex. Seit 1991 Redakteur für Bildende Kunst der FAZ, seit 1997 auch zuständig für Design. Honorarprofessor für Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg.Anmerkungen:
Bitte beachten Sie, dass auch wir der Preisbindung unterliegen und kurzfristige Preiserhöhungen oder -senkungen an Sie weitergeben müssen.